Wound care uses specific dressings and hygiene to prevent wound infections. The wound care team assesses the healing progress of wounds daily. Wound care: When you are admitted to the burn unit, your ...

Even after she began to recover from second- and third-degree burns suffered in a cooking fire in the kitchen of her Homewood home, Janean Dyson had other injuries that were not so apparent to others.

The sudden pain of a minor kitchen burn sends most people rushing for commercial burn creams or ointments tucked away in medicine cabinets. Yet these pharmaceutical options, while convenient, often ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Burn surgeons at Baton Rouge General are using a new spray-on skin technology on nearly every burn patient, making the healing process faster and less painful while reducing ...

Researchers create a biomimetic model to study wound healing in burn and laceration wounds. The team designed an in vitro model system made of fibroblasts embedded in a collagen hydrogel. Wounds were ...

A small kitchen burn can look harmless at first, but a few days later, you may notice the skin peeling, and shedding like dry ...

One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. To bring relief to this and other problems, University of Waterloo researchers have ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center have developed an innovative bioengineered skin equivalent for grafting in burn victims. The bioengineered skin produced from ...

From fluid resuscitation to grafting, clinicians face challenges in managing severe burns in highly specialized hospital ...